Handwriting Has Multiple Benefits

July 16, 2011

Regarding Theodore Dalrymple's "The Handwriting Is on the Wall" (Review, July 9): Too bad the people responsible for the poor decision of eliminating handwriting from Indiana's curriculum didn't read your "Handwriting Helps Brains—Forming Letters Is Key to Learning, Memory, Ideas" (Oct. 5, 2010) in which various groups from brain researchers to doctors comment on the benefits to children and even adults in learning how to write or learning new symbols such as Chinese letters. Benefits mentioned include fine motor skill development, improved cognition and enhancement of composition and expression, and...